[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by Eric

Maybe a lot of the kids from wealthier homes are given "toys" (eveything they demand) instead of parenting ... ignore the little ******, shut him up with a laptop ... sort of parenting via bribery.

That could be it Eric. Maybe if they had to earn it like what we did then maybe they'd treat things better and also get a feeling like it is to earn something. I know when i was a kid i was lucky because my dad had his own business and i was spoilt anything i wanted until i was 14 i could have within reason. When i was 14 my dad became ill and had to sell his business and so we didnt have that money coming in and had to earn my spending money. My job was to polish the bedrooms on a wednesday and the living room on a sunday and wash up after tea. If i didnt do it i got my spending money docked - it depended on what i hadnt done to how much i got docked. They only docked it once - i learnt my lesson with that. How many kids get their spending money docked if they dont do anything in the house nowadays. Not many i would guess.